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The Ham Radio two point zero audio
podcast rip. Thank you for downloading and

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listening to this podcast. So basically
what I do is I take all the

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upload them to spreaker, and then from

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But I want to welcome you and
thank you for joining the audio section of

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this series on Ham Radio. I
hope you enjoy it, and I would

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appreciate you leaving us a comment or
a review on whatever podcast service you're listening

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from. Thank you in seventy three. I hope you enjoy it. This

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is by far the smallest battery box
that I own, the smallest with the

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fewest poor but it holds my twenty
amp hour bioino battery and it has everything

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you need. So I want to
check it out today. This is the

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Impulse T four hundred battery box.
Let's take a look at the inside here.

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I picked this up because someone at
quartz Fest back in January of this

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year mentioned this. I think this
guy who makes these is in I don't

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remember. He's in California, Arizona
one way or the other. He's a

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Ham who builds these on his own, and I'm always interested in promoting Ham

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Radio business owners independent business owners for
Ham Radio. So I said, this

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was the smallest battery box that I've
seen, but it's full featured. It

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only has a couple of ports on
it, but it has a charge controller.

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It's a charge controller right here.
This is a hundred and fifty watt

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solar charge controller. MPPT is the
MPPT solar charge controller. That's pretty cool.

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One hundred and fifty watts. It'll
take my little Gigaparts panel that I

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use in multiple places. The two
most popular solar panels that I used to

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say are as my one hundred and
fifty watt Gigga Parts Explore panel and my

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three hundred wat Gigga Parts Explore panel. The three hundred primarily I plug into

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the two hundred Empire battery in my
truck, and one hundred and fifty wad

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I kind of take around and plug
it into whatever else I might be using

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at the time, some battery box
somewhere. But this one will take up

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to one hundred fifty, so there's
nothing wrong with that. So this,

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uh, this right here, this
T four hundred is and I'll share a

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link to the description blow I purchased
this from Impulse Electronics dot Com. I

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purchased this box. It was not
sent to me. I've never spoken to

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the gentleman who owns the company.
I just I thought it was a cool

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box, so I thought, I'm
gonna I'm gonna grab one and I'm gonna

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put it in there. This box
is advertised to hold either the fifteen or

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twenty Biowino. This is my twenty
Empire Biowino. It barely fits. It

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barely fits. And if you can
see, it's got these um blade connectors

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here that are turned ninety degrees.
I didn't do that. It came that

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way, so isis. And these
are these are coming straight out from the

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port. These are turned ninety degrees. That one's turned this way, that

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one's turned this way right there.
So I suspect he did that on purpose

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to because I'm sure he's probably got
a twenty amp hour bioino and he knows

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the configuration of this battery. So
I suspect he did that on purpose so

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that it'll fit properly. And it
fits. It fits. It's barely,

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it barely fits, but it does
fit. So if you do that and

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close that up like that. There
we go right there and then we can

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turn this up here. So there's
this is a T four hundred twenty two

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six. I don't know what that
means, but this is These are power

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works meters, so you can't really
complain with that. The yellow one obviously

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is your solar panel input, and
the red one is your power output.

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It's only got one output to power
pull output on it. I wouldn't be

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concerned about it. Okay. So
I have about at the time of this

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recruiting, I have about six battery
boxes, so I just grabbed the one

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that I want to take and go. If I want a small one,

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that's the one I take. I'm
curious about taking this thing on an airplane.

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Technically the battery is too big.
You're supposed to only take up to

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one hundred and forty four which is
basically a twelve vampower battery one hundred and

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fifty watt hours for American airlines,
which I usually fly. That's what they

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advertise, but I've never had them
take my battery out. Sometimes they'll say,

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what is this. I say,
it's a battery. Oh okay.

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They don't look and see the what
it's marked out. Maybe I'll print one

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hundred and forty four WAT sticker and
put it on this one. I didn't

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say that, TSA, TSA,
don't listen to this video. So it's

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got a cigarette lighter adapter obviously right
there. And then it's got a PD

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and I don't remember the I don't
remember the wattage on that. But it's

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got a PD, a power Delivery
USBC and a quick charge three point zero

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for a USBA, and then we
can turn that on and it shows thirteen

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point two volts right there. So
it's got all the essentials. It's got

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everything you need. Solar panel input, power pool output, twelve volt cigarette

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lighter adapter output. I think,
honestly, I think I would probably trade

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that and put another dual power pool
in there. So I think what I

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might do is take this thing out. Although you know, sometimes I buy

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like I bought a a twelve volt
cigarette lighter adapter that plugs into my Anytone

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Desk cradle to charge my Anytone HT
radios, and it has a cigarette lighter

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adapter on it, and I thought, well, I'll just take that and

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cut it off and put power pools
on it, which is always a good

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idea, okay, but some stuff
actually, I mean sometimes you actually need

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a power adapter, so I don't
know, I might trade that out and

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put the powerworks double. And I'm
sure if you call this guy, I

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mean, he seems like he's pretty
responsive to emails. Or if you emailed

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him, said instead of putting this
in, it looked like he did custom

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jobs on the website. You might
don't quote me on that, but I

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think that's true. So you might
even be able to request and you know,

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take the twelve volt power adapter cigarette
lighter adapter out and put another power

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pool thing in here, so which
might be kind of cool. This is

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just one size. He offers these
in multiple sizes, four hundred. This

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is just the just the one size
that I chose. Could have gotten a

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lot bigger one. I believe this. No, I think he makes a

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smaller one. But it's like for
the eight or ten or twelve vampower batteries

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something like that. I had the
twenty hour Bioano. I've had it for

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a couple of years now, and
I knew I had that batter I thought,

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well, let me just get the
one that fits my twenty amp hour

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bio ino. Why not that that's
just kind of a perfect perfect set up

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there. Now, if you ever
wanted to build something like this on your

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own and you need someplace to like
make a circuit board or some connectors or

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something, I want to thank pcbway
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So for building stuff like this, And

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I don't know if this is what
Impulse Electronics dot Com used or not.

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I kind of suspect this is.
This looks like kind of a standard box

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that you can get at Harbor Freight
or at recently found them at Northern Tool

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Check this video right here and I'll
link that right there. So you can

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get these boxes kind of anywhere.
But if you want to build like your

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own stuff and have something kind of
injected molding and C and C molded,

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pcbwa dot Com does complete custom jobs
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and your ideas to life. So
check the link in the description. Blow

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for PCB Way and thank you for
supporting this channel. I just want to

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pull up the website real quick.
This is the one that I got.

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This is the T four hundred Go
box for life pot four battery on hundred

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and seventy five dollars at the time
of this recording, grabbing go direct solar

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panel input. Well, that's a
that's a hefty Oh no, oh,

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he's got a that's a whole radio
in there. Nice. I don't remember

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that being there. Okay, T
three hundred Go box. It's a little

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bit uh looks like that's a little
bit better. He's got a little bit

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bigger, I should say. He's
got several ports on that that my box

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doesn't have. Okay, so you
see there's three this is the one that

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I have right here. There's actually
five on that one. There's a switch

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you can switch the battery off and
on. That's cool, and then there's

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um there's a meet a lot of
the meters on it there there's okay,

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so the extra power pole. So
you've got three power poles on the T

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three hundred cool. Okay, that
is probably a lot. This the next

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size up a box from this,
so you can do that right there.

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Anyway, I just really like supporting
hammade parts and hammade equipment like that.

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So I've been really happy with this
box. I've taken it out, I've

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used this on Poda two or three
times, and like I said, I've

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had that battery. In fact,
if you looked at the battery, it

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has I don't know if you saw
that or not, go back and watching

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the video, but the labels starting
to peel off of it because I've kept

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the battery outside in the sun a
few times. So it's good to have

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the battery in a protective case.
I've got the connections I need. I

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can charge my phone in my tablet
now from the ports that are on here.

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So this is a great addition to
the go box lineup. Let me

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let me know in the comments below
if you've ever heard of Impulse Electronics dot

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com, if you ever if you
have anything of theirs, and what you

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think about it, and be sure
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